Writing

I am currently at work on a collection of essays about art and a poetry manuscript.

In 2016, my second collection of short fiction was published by Tightrope Books.
http://tightropebooks.com/canadian-shield-kelley-aitken/

Earlier this year the book was awarded an IPPY Awards Regional Bronze Medal for Fiction

My collection of short stories Love in a Warm Climate was published in 1998 by The Porcupine’s Quill. That book was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize '99, (Canadian Caribbean Region; First Book Category).

I co-edited First Writes, a collection of essays published in 2003 by Banff Press.

Essays and poems of mine have been published in the following journals: Room of One's Own, Grain, subTERRAIN, Blood & Aphorisms, PRISMinternational, the Ottawa Citizen, Descant, the Queen’s Quarterly, ARC Poetry Magazine and Pottersfield Portfolio among others.